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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2015- “If your football coach doesn’t win, it doesn’t matter how good a businessman you are.” Bump Elliott, former Iowa AD, on the first priority of a major college AD

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We’re right in the middle of our annual three-day mid-summer mini-camp
at North Beach, designed to (1) bridge the gap between spring ball and
the official, state-sanctioned start of football on August 19; (2) set
things up for our senior-led conditioning which takes place next week;
(3) get them somewhat physically prepared for our rigorous circuit training, which takes
place the following week-and-a-half.

A lot of this nonsense would be preventable if we didn’t have an
18-day “dead period” between August 1 and the start of football, during
which we can’t do anything but condition our players.

We do our best to condition our kids, but the weather here doesn’t
always cooperate. It was supposed to be “hot” on Wednesday and Thursday - meaning,
at Ocean Shores, 70 degrees - but it never got over 68. Eat your
hearts out, you guys in the Southwest, South, Midwest and
Mid-Atlantic. Actually, my hat’s off to you. I don’t know how you
manage to do the things you do in that heat and humidity.NEWS YOU CAN USE - CONTINUED